TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1978//
TI  - 'Lethal' burns. A progress report
JO  - Archives of surgery (1960)
A1  - Monafo, W. W.
A1  - Robinson, H. N.
A1  - Yoshioka, T.
A1  - Ayvazian, V. H.
SP  - 397
EP  - 401
VL  - 113
IS  - 4
N2  - Sixteen consecutive patients, nine of whom also had inhalation injury, had burns over 72% body surface area or more. The expected death rate was 94%. In fact, all of the eight patients still alive after 48 hours survived. The early deaths were primarily due to inhalation injury, the treatment of which remains an unsolved problem. A mixture of cerium nitrate and silver sulfadiazine was used for topical wound antisepsis. The wound flora was sparse: 447 of 814 wound-surface cultures were sterile; Gram-negative bacteria were recovered in 13%. This efficacious wound bacteriostasis appeared primarily responsible for the absence of late death.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0004-0010
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -